Acquisitions Speculation - General
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@myskaros said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:
@aruseus493 said:
Trying to say Reverse Isekai is just when something comes from another world is completely confusing the nature of the Isekai trope.
You don't call going from A to B then back to A a "reverse trip," so why would you call it a "reverse isekai" just because A and B are different worlds? :/
Having never heard the term "reverse isekai" used before in general, the definition you're trying to sell is not remotely what I would expect it to be, that's why I disagree with it.
Imo, reverse Isekai is anything that summons to OUR world, or the world of the main character.
Example, there is a manga where dungeons are appearing in Japan, and suddenly the MC has one in his garden shed.
Example, farmer finds a female knight in his field and nurses her back to health. The spell she cast to escape orcs crossed her to “this world” instead of pulling him to hers.
I went out to get milk, and returned home with a wife and twin daughters.
One could argue world trigger is a reverse Isekai.
You could argue “Freezing” is a reverse Isekai. The enemy comes from an alternate dimension.
Goodby Isekai goodbye, where a princess comes to the MC world to being him to hers using truck-Kun and other methods, only to be prevented by demons from her world. This could be considered a reverse Isekai...
What if the large metropolis’ of the world suddenly had a dungeon as their sewers... and they had to now hire adventurers to clean up or “hunt” them clean...
Mind you, lately I’ve started to think most Isekai are about time travel...
Ie, Souma Kazuya from realist her wasn’t “summoned” to another dimension, just pulled 5000+ years forward in time after a world wide apocalypse. It’s been hinted in at least one other light novel/manga/anime...
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Updated the Bingo card from AX. Going to roll with it into the New Year and see if I can cross some of these out if they get licensed. =)
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@terrence I’d like any of those to get licensed.
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@terrence why diff cross with diff colour. Is it random or some reason??
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@bromit said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:
@terrence why diff cross with diff colour. Is it random or some reason??
I just chose different color X's for the different vertical lines. I think I'm going to change it to color coded for who licensed what though.
Blue for J-Novel.
Green for Yen On.
Black for Seven Seas.
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@terrence Don't think mimic is very likely considering it only has one volume with no news of a second after 8 months.
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@aruseus493 said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:
@terrence Don't think mimic is very likely considering it only has one volume with no news of a second after 8 months.
I agree, but at the time (Anime Expo) it was fairly fresh and new, thought it would have some legs (cough cough, no pun intended with the sexy legs on the cover) sales wise and get sequels. Nothing though. Honestly, one I'd take off my request list until further notice.
Mimic could still be one of those random Pizza Elf / Division Maneuver type licenses. Most volume 1s are fairly good singular experiences too, so I'd still grab it if it got licensed, just not as enthusiastic as I was.
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@_08 I'm not seeing it listed. Was it taken down perhaps? 🙄
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@terabyte You can see it in the app or through other non-obvious ways. Official reader can't open it though, which is probably for the better because the first two pages in the chapter are misplaced.
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@_08 Oh okay. I barely use the mobile app, and I don't have the beta installed either way. I'll just wait, I'm not in a hurry.
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That was an obvious license. The art looks good so let's see how it ends up.
So, after guessing which hint was for each license, for now we have,
Manga
The Manga Adaptaton of LN#1 -> Potion Loli(eventually I presume)- Not Actually An Imouto Harem
Now With Less Laborious Lecturing -> Isekai MahouFall In Love All Over Again -> Elf Wife- Ironically No Anime Adaptation
Light novels
Complete the Triptych -> Potion LoliMy Frenchman Will Be Pleased -> Cooking With Wild Game(I don't get the hint but I guess it's this one.)- It's Definitely Not Stocks
- Abe's Last-Ditch Solution
If the pending mangas are adaptations for light novels, can't think of any.
Quof got a break.
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@crimson-wise Cooking with wild game could be the frenchman hint since France as a big part of culture around cuisine, but the "It's definitly not stock" hint seem more fitting since the MC is cooking use wild game and not stock, plus the frenchman hint seem to be reference to a video game which has no link to cooking.
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Does anyone know any manga about anime? That hint I feel should be easy to guess. Maybe Animeta?
https://bookwalker.jp/de9ca60bfa-4abb-498c-a89d-8536f557a710/?acode=WpfPW3yk
@crimson-wise said in New Acquisitions Speculation General [9 NEW AQUISITIONS ANNOUNCED (5 MANGA, 4 LNs) 1 LN Unconfirmed!]:
- Abe's Last-Ditch Solution
I wonder if this is about the current decline in birthrates in Japan?
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It's properly available now but magic's page order in still wrong. -
@terrence said:
I wonder if this is about the current decline in birthrates in Japan?
I just started reading Cop Craft in light of the anime announcement, and it deals with a large influx of immigrants from another world to Earth. Certainly fits with Japan's recent attempts to open the country up to more immigration, and I feel like earlier someone mentioned that one of the titles was supposed to be reverse isekai. It would be a nice pickup with the anime just having been announced, too.
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^ Ah, looks interesting. Last volume release was 2016 though. Let's hope if that is it, it gets a continuation (or it wraps up in the 2016 volume, but I don't think it does judging by the comments in the Bookmeter reviews, people waiting for the next volume).
https://bookwalker.jp/de081c1445-3ce3-435f-b34f-27d30b69fd87/?acode=WpfPW3yk
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@hosikuzu Cop Craft would be an awesome license (someone should really make a forum recommendation tbh), but I don’t see Shogakukan/Gagaga’s contempt towards digital licenses ever abaiting any time soon.
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There's still that other hint about one of the LNs being reverse isekai.
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I'm still thinking "It's definitely not stocks" is The Hero's Success is Now, given that stocks right now are very much not successful. It's also a reverse isekai, so it'd fit that bill.
If we're talking stories where immigrants from a fantasy world have assimilated with Japanese society, there's also On the Way Home, I Got a Bride and Twin Daughters, Who Were Dragons, which has this sort of setting, and is an Overlap title so it's obviously within JNC's reach. Whether that'd count for that fourth clue or as a "reverse isekai" is... well, up to Sam's interpretation, really.
